Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
Nelson* Riddle Garibaldi Mountain British Columbia Suite
Buddy Knox Rock House ST
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Born Under a Bad Sign Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Priscilla* Rollins Mama You Treat Your Daughter Mean Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Grandpa Tell Me One More Story I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
David Amram Summer Nights, Winter Rain Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Cal* Bostic Let It Be Me Introducing...
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Time After Time And I Love Her
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Cal* Bostic Georgie Girl Introducing...
Matt* Lucas The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Priscilla* Rollins Feel So Good Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Tony McManus Chalaneru The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Matt* Lucas Tomcat Blues Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine Danger Zone Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine We Got Each Other Ellen McIlwaine
Zambonis* Helmet (instrumental) To Bleed Black and Gold
Oscar* McLollie Buried Alive ST
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Cal* Bostic Excessive Love (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine All to You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ernie* Smith Take Your Time To Behold Jah
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Kozak Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* The Lady is a Tramp Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Honky Tonk Angel
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Doc Holiday* Canadian State of Mind Canadian State of Mind b/w Canadian State of Mind
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
David Amram Pull My Daisy Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Priscilla* Rollins Cry Cry Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Cal* Bostic The Darkest Hour (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* You're My Honey I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Girl I've Been Waiting You And I
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Aarons And Ackley* Lay Me Down ST
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Matt* Lucas The Last Song Matt Gets Blue
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Priscilla* Rollins Why Can't I touch You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Betrothed Girl Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Priscilla* Rollins If You Should Lose Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) We the People
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Dils* Not Worth It (Ca ne veux pas le pleine) Made In Canada
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Jonathan Edwards People Get Ready Sailboat
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Alpha Centauri Love Only You ST
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Matt* Lucas Drunkard's Dream Matt Gets Blue
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Nelson* Riddle The Caribou British Columbia Suite
Country Mcdonald Joe* Jean Desprez War War War
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars I Want a Girl Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Nelson* Riddle Butchart Gardens British Columbia Suite
Cal* Bostic In Love Again (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Givin' Up the Man I Love Amist the Black Eyes
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST
Ursa Major* Silverspoon ST
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

FEATURED

Dils* - Made In Canada

San Diego, California, USA - Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ernie* Smith - To Behold Jah

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (1)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (1)

War War War

Amist the Black Eyes

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 02

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 01

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